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March 2025
Late-filed evidence - admitted in first-instance proceedings (no)
Novelty - Main Request (no)
Novelty - Auxiliary request 1 (yes)
Novelty - Auxiliary request 2 (no)
Novelty - Auxiliary requests 3 and 4 (yes)
Novelty - Auxiliary request 7 (yes)
Inventive step - Auxiliary request 1 (no)
Inventive step - Auxiliary requests 3 to 5 (no)
Inventive step - Auxiliary request 7 (yes)
Amendments - allowable Auxiliary request 7 (yes)
Claims - lack of clarity no ground for opposition
Claims - Auxiliary request 7
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances
Amendment after summons - Auxiliary request 7 (yes)
Amendment occasioned by ground for opposition - Auxiliary request 7 (yes)
Admission of a new document (No)
Admission of new lines of attack
Main request - Inventive step (Yes)
Amendment to case - admissibly raised and maintained (yes)
Amendment occasioned by ground for opposition - (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Remittal - special reasons for remittal (no)
Late-filed objection - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - exercise of discretion
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - taken into account (no)
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendments - allowable (no)
Inventive step - (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary requests 1 to 4 (no)
Amendments auxiliary requests 5 to 8
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request 9 - admission into the appeal proceedings (no);
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - Verletzung des rechtlichen Gehörs
Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - wesentlicher Verfahrensmangel
Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - Übergehen eines Gegenbeweisangebots (ja)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Admission of request not admitted by the examining division - first and second auxiliary requests (not admitted)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - exceptional circumstances (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Novelty - patent as granted and auxiliary requests 1 and 2 (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary requests 3 and 5 (no)
Added subject-matter - auxiliary requests 4 and 6 to 9 (yes)